vault-k8s VS argocd-vault-plugin

Compare vault-k8s vs argocd-vault-plugin and see what are their differences.

vault-k8s

First-class support for Vault and Kubernetes. (by hashicorp)
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vault-k8s argocd-vault-plugin
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vault-k8s

Posts with mentions or reviews of vault-k8s. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-01-18.
  • GitOps and Kubernetes – Secure Handling of Secrets
    7 projects | dev.to | 18 Jan 2023
    Hashicorp Vault k8s is an operator that modifies pods via a mutating webhook to connect between vault and pod via sidecars (additional containers) to provide secrets. This has the major advantage that no secret objects are created in Kubernetes here. The disadvantage is that this way only works with Vault.
  • Solving ArgoCD Secret Management with the argocd-vault-plugin
    2 projects | /r/kubernetes | 6 Feb 2021
    They’ve made it so you can define the order that the vault sidecar starts in, so that the proxy will be running first. https://github.com/hashicorp/vault-k8s/issues/53

argocd-vault-plugin

Posts with mentions or reviews of argocd-vault-plugin. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-01-18.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing vault-k8s and argocd-vault-plugin you can also consider the following projects:

kubernetes-external-secrets - Integrate external secret management systems with Kubernetes

kustomize-sops - KSOPS - A Flexible Kustomize Plugin for SOPS Encrypted Resources

vault-secrets-operator - Create Kubernetes secrets from Vault for a secure GitOps based workflow.

sealed-secrets - A Kubernetes controller and tool for one-way encrypted Secrets

secrets-store-csi-driver - Secrets Store CSI driver for Kubernetes secrets - Integrates secrets stores with Kubernetes via a CSI volume.

vault-creds - Sidecar container for requesting dynamic Vault database secrets

argocd-image-updater - Automatic container image update for Argo CD

kubernetes-external-secrets - Integrate external secret management systems with Kubernetes [Moved to: https://github.com/external-secrets/kubernetes-external-secrets]

applicationset - The ApplicationSet controller manages multiple Argo CD Applications as a single ApplicationSet unit, supporting deployments to large numbers of clusters, deployments of large monorepos, and enabling secure Application self-service.

argo-cd - Declarative Continuous Deployment for Kubernetes

k8s-vault-webhook - A k8s vault webhook is a Kubernetes webhook that can inject secrets into Kubernetes resources by connecting to multiple secret managers